Preface to the Gerhard M. Schneider Festschrift

PREFACE

Preface to the Handbook

Purpose The explosive growth in computer power over the past several decades offers new tools and opportunities for economists. Volume 1 of the Handbook of Computational Economics (Amman et al. 1996) surveyed the growing literature on computational methods for solving standard economic models such as Arrow-Debreu-McKenzie general equilibrium models and rational expectations models. This second ...

Playing the Festschrift Game

There are not many people who can be said to have influenced and impressed researchers in so many disparate areas and language-geographic fields as Lauri Carlson, as is evidenced in the present Festschrift. Lauri’s insight and acute linguistic sensitivity and linguistic rationality have spawned findings and research work in many areas, from non-standard etymology to hard-core formal linguistics...

Preface to the Student

Humanbeings arrive at truth in fourways: Faith, authority, revelation, andobservation. All other animals rely only upon authority, by observing adults, and observation, by, for example, tasting fruit or experiencing the changing of the seasons. Very few species other than Man, although they, too, may experience territorialism, practice genocide or wage organized war. This is perhaps a commentar...

Preface to the proceedings

The University of Leicester is planning to develop a CubeSat mission for spaceweather monitoring to participate in the European nanosatellite network project QB50, whichaims to launch 50 CubeSats in 2014. This paper will describe the CubeSat mission and thescience payloads that will be developed. The CubeSat will carry an innovative miniaturisedultraviolet Wide-Field Auroral Ima...